The Woman Behind Kangxi: The Biography of Virtuous Concubine

Chapter 69
(I have to catch the plane back to school in the afternoon, so I will make up for everyone’s debts. If the plane is not delayed today, it will be changed in the evening, but the side where I sit is often delayed, so please don’t wait and forget it. Nonsense. After arriving at school, my mother has nothing to do, so the update will appear in the middle of the night, and I have to go to class during the day~~)

During the rainy season in spring, it rained for more than ten days, and the joints of the whole body were covered with mildew.


The sky just cleared up, and this afternoon, Concubine Tong heard that the Yonghe Palace seemed to have invited the imperial physician to visit again, thinking that since Ning De was pregnant and Empress Xiaozhao passed away, she seemed to have not seen a noble person for many days, and so on. After the person who greeted him left, he hurried to the Yonghe Palace.

As soon as she entered the door, Fei Cui rushed out to greet her. Concubine Tong asked as she went in, "How is my sister? The previous son was fine. Why did you call the imperial doctor?"

Fei Cui hurriedly replied: "Thank you, Concubine Tong, for your concern, our master is fine, it's just a symptom of nausea, but it was fine at the beginning of the month, but now I often can't eat, the emperor was worried, so he ordered someone to call the imperial doctor to come and see Look, the prescription has been prescribed. Madam, please rest assured." Seeing that Concubine Tong had already entered the yard, she hurriedly followed a few steps forward and said, "Madam, wait a moment, let the slaves go in and report back!"

Concubine Tong looked at Fei Cui strangely: "I've never seen you so stinging like a scorpion, what's wrong today?"

Fei Cui lowered her voice and said: "Your Majesty, the Emperor is inside!"

Concubine Tong said ah, usually at this time the emperor is scheduled to give lectures in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, she never thought of this for a while, she hurriedly smiled and said: "I am not lucky, I will come to see my sister later!" Back out, but I heard Ningde's voice in the back room saying: "Jade, who are you talking to outside?"

Concubine Tong could only say: "Sister, it's me!"

Ning De said, "It's sister, come in!"

The little maid raised the curtain, and when Concubine Tong came in, she saw Ning De and Xuan Ye standing side by side at the table, holding something and looking at it.Both of them were only wearing homely clothes, and Ning De was only wearing a bun, but he didn't wear makeup or jewelry.Concubine Tong stared at it, but it was because the indoor heater was more active today, which made Ningde's face more red and charming.

Seeing Concubine Tong at this time, Ning De smiled and said, "Sister came early today, I don't think there is anyone else earlier than you!" As he spoke, he glanced at Xuan Ye with a smile.

Concubine Tong hurriedly saluted, Xuan Ye smiled softly and said: "That's all! There are no rules of etiquette here."

Concubine Tong was busy smiling and standing aside, but her heart was empty, as if it was full of grass and wasted.

It has been ten years since she served the present day. Xuan Ye looks gentle, but he is far out of reach.At this time, I saw him standing with Ningde, wearing homely clothes and smiling, their behaviors were not particularly close, but their words and deeds were in an indescribably natural and tacit understanding, there was no distinction between monarch and minister, emperor and concubine.Concubine Tong felt mixed emotions in her heart.

Ningde looked up out of the window and sighed: "This day is really true. It was just sunny yesterday. Judging by the weather, it will rain tomorrow. We are fine with such a rainy day. Those who live in low-lying areas Poor people, they just washed their homes away."

Xuan Ye sighed: "It's not enough, go further to the south, and when the Yellow River rises, if it rains again and again, I will worry that the Yellow River will burst its embankment. At that time, the people will be devastated, the refugees will be displaced, and the people will have no way of life. This Yellow River is being repaired every year. Every year, silt floods, the country has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and millions of residents, and the world's water transportation must come from this river, but this river is the most troublesome thing for me."

Ning De said: "I have also heard the saying in ancient times that 'the Yellow River is clear, and the world is peaceful', but De'er didn't understand it. The emperor cared about the affairs of the Yellow River day and night, and since their Han emperors have also cleaned up hundreds of Years later, why can't the Yellow River be well governed?"

(End of this chapter)